The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-25

( t. bea favorite field with the Mormon but t
appears that the good people of those par
ticular sections in which they have been
operating have determined to put stop to
! their work.
At Winnsboro' during a heavy thunder
/ shower, Thursday afternoon, the printing
| office of the NetCS and Herald was struck
! by lightning. The electric current descended
| the chimney TO the second floor, where 1t
rebounded Pieces of plastering were
| knocked TWENTY-FIVE feet. w. NJ. PropSt
was at his case s5tting type. The current
struck him, knocking HIM senseless. The
| hair Of his right arm was scorched, and the
| current went down his back leaving blue
| mark TO Show its course, and large bhsters
on his heels to show where the current lett
his body. MeSsrs. Williams and McCreight
received severe shocks. Mr.. Williams was
at his case with q stick of type i'll his hand.
| The stick was knocked out OF the window,
| but Mr. Williams did not lose consciousness
and immediately dispatched Mr.. McCrelght
for a physician. Mr. Propst remained IN
conscious for about ton minutes.
At Newberry some days ngo the attorneys
| for George JohnstOne. in investigating
| some rumored threats male by John b.
| Jones, asked W H. Hunt. Jr., privately il
be had heard the deceased use threats. He
| replied that he had not. He was then asked
| if he had heard anyone say the deceased
used threats He replied that he had, but
when further questioned as to his infoIIna-
| ton, he declined to answer on the ground
| that the information was given him in con-
! tidence, and that to reveal the source OF ms
| information would be a breach of conf
dence The attorneys then obtained from
Judge Presley n rule against Mr.. Hunt re-
| quiring him to show cause why he should
not disclose the persons name. Before re-
turn was made to the rule, S. A. Boozer
came forward voluntarily and acknowl-
| edged to the attorneys that he was the per
son, and expressed his willingness TO tell
them all he knew in the case, and this set
tied the matter.
At Spartanburg, Sunday night between
8 and 10 O'clock, a shooting scrape took
place VIII Woodruff is a colored waiter
i'll Schmidts & Beckers ice cream saloon.
He was on his way to church and was going
down the railroad near the gas house, when
he was suddenly asSailed by men unknown
to him. One of them knocked him down
with a rock, inficting a severe wound on
the head. For some reason or other they
ran off from him, and as they did 50,
Woodruff rose and drew the handy pistol
from his pocket and fired twice at the re-
treating forms in the dark. JEFF Mathis, a
white man working with Tanner 81 Lemas-
ter, was shot i'll the small of the back. DIR.
Means thinks he may recover. Woodruff
Reikard, VIII Egins and Ed Arson for an
assault of an aggravated nature. On the
other hand, the white men say that Wood
ruff came down the road and began to abuse
and curse them before they had spoken to
him, and then they attacked him with
rocks.
Thursday, at Col c. s. McCall's mill,
near Marlboro, Henry B. Easterling went
in bathing in company with John Mcln-
tosh and Jack Grassland, and was seemingly
as well as ever. Shortly after getting into
| the water they entered into tusse over a
melon which they had with them, and in
few seconds Mr. Easterling turned and
went to shallow water. After he had
reached place where the water was only
about two feet deep he kept turning about
as ii playing in the water, and nothing
wrong was suspected for the moment. But
| in few seconds it was noticed that he was
remaining under water rather long, and
upon taking hold of him they found he was
dying. He was Immediately taken out and
! everything possible done to restore life, but
! all of no avail. In a short time he was
| dead. Early next morning the Coroner
held an inquest over the body Of the de-
ceased, and the verdict of the jury of in
| quest was, in substance, that deceased came
to his death by drowning, which was super
induced by an attack of asthma, conges-
| ton, epilepsy, or some other cause which
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| for the time disabled him.
Jacob Biggs trestle master on the Will
| mihgtOn, Columbia and Augusta railroad,
was run over and killed at Nicholas Wednes-
| day night by the northern-bou train.
| Some time before the train was due BiggS,
who was stationed with his shanty cars at
Nichols, remarked to his hands that it was
too hot for him in the cars and that he
would get out and cool off before re
firing He sat down in a chair in
the middle of the track, with a view to
get the benefit of the evening breeze.
1t is supposed that he must have
fallen asleep. The train carries the fast
mails and does not stop at Nichols. The en-
gineer says he did not see anything before
him, but he felt the jar, but, sllpposing tbat
he had killed hog, he did not stop On ex.
animation of his engine at Chadbourn he
discovered signs of blood. He notified the
authorities in charge of the train which
meets him there When that train reached
Nichols at II o'clock inquiry was made and
no one knew anything about the matter,
but on close examination Biggs' mutilated
remains We're found scattered for several
hundred yards on the track.
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